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MASON WINS AWARD CHECK OF $1,000
COLLECTING A $1000 SUGGESTION PLAN CHECK is
Harold Mason, left, ground service analyst in Kansas City,
who won the highest award possible under the system for
an idea on cabin cargo seat covers. From the left are Don
Heep, manager of ground service, Tom Ashton, manager of
suggestion plan, Dick Horstmeyer, supervisor of cargo service
making the presentation, and Frank Busch, general operations manager. This is the second $1000 award this year.
VOL. 16 NO. 38
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES EMPLOYEE PUBLICATION
SEPTEMBER 17, 1953
Flight Engineer
Classes Open To
TWA Mechanics
Kansas City—All TWA mechanics who are qualified are invited to
apply for admittance to three student flight engineer classes scheduled
to open in the Kansas City ground training section this fall.
The first class begins Oct. 6. Another is slated to start Nov. 2 and a
third is tentatively set for Dec. 7.
Every TWA mechanic who can meet the qualifications will be con-
- sidered for admittance to the classes.
* *
TO WOO A TURKISH DANCER.
Sheppard Abdullah King III prepares
to depart for Cairo. Houston Sales
Manager Doug Whitmire, right, hands
King his ticket and a flight bag. King,
who married then divorced a one-time
favorite dancer of King Farouk, was
hot on the trail of another exotic
dancer, but got sidetracked in Cincinnati and missed his overseas flight.
Photo by Celia Cruz.
Paris Employees Club
To Enjoy Cuban Holiday
Paris — Special decorations,
gaily clad guests and two orchestras promise to make "One Night
in Cuba" a successful affair for
the local employees club.
Talented entertainers are also
promised by club president Christian DeTalence. The dance will
begin at 9:30 p.m., Oct. 3.
Men coming to the dance are
asked to don white jackets and
the ladies are requested to wear
a light and brilliantly colored afternoon or cocktail dress in order
to lend atmosphere to the "Cuban
holiday."
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Mamma Gnu: "Junior has been a bad
boy today. I wish you'd spank him."
Papa Gnu: "No. You'll just have to
paddle your own Gnu."
Changes Made al
Overhaul Base in
Long Bange Plan
Kansas City—Several changes
have been made in the organizational structure of the engineering
and maintenance department in
order to carry out TWA's long
range plans in connection with the
move ro the new overhaul base in
Platte county.
These changes were announced
this week by Ray Dunn, director
of the department.
In order to implement the move
into the power plant building these
appointments have been made:
F. L. Spruill will become superintendent of power plants, reporting to the manager of production.
Reporting to Spruill will be the
general foreman of engine overhaul, engine buildup, machine shop,
test cells, and plating shop.
G. F. Van Skike, general foreman of engine overhaul, has an
Applications may be made to the
nearest industrial relations office or
directly to the TWA employment
office, Municipal airport, Kansas
City, Mo.
After an application has been
made, interviews and tests will be
conducted to determine whether
the mechanic meets the basic standards and qualifications necessary for
a TWA flight engineer.
Four months of ground school
will follow before a student flight
engineer wins his wings. He will
(Continued on Page 8)
TWA Film To Highlight
N. Y. Airport TV Show
New York—Featuring Captain
Hal Blackburn and scenes from
TWA's film "Overseas Run," the
Port of New York Authority will
tell the story of International
(Idlewild) airport on TV for the
next two Sundays, Sept. 20 and
Sept. 27.
The program, a public service
feature of. WCBS-TV, has been
nounced hiTTmention of "retiring running four months to tell the
next year. In order to make use of stoiL°f the P°rt of New York-
his many years of engine overhaul TWA ls cooperating with the
experience in the planning of the Port authority and CBS to make
new base to be built for TWA at available its people and equipment
the Platte county airport, Van t0 take the Publlc belJind the
Skike will work on special assign- s<?enes i ™e operation of a great
{Continued on Page 8) air terminal and a great airline.
Kansas City—Harold Mason, ground service analyst, drew on his
past experience as a cargo handler to design a new type cargo carrying
seat bag and collect a $1000 check under the suggestion plan last week.
The award to Mason is the first maximum suggestion plan award
ever made to a TWAer in a non-maintenance capacity.
Mason, who works in the staff office of the ground service section
at Municipal airport, broke in with _____
TWA as a cargo handler in June,
1943. After holding down various
jobs in the station, moving up to
chief passenger agent, Mason transferred to the cargo staff offices and
has served in several different
capacities in that department ever
since.
Mason noted that the old type
cargo seat bag posed some problems. Individually designed to fit
specific seats in specific aircraft,
the bags were carried aboard each
plane. The bags are used to secure
cargo which has to be carried in the
passenger cabin should cargo loads
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Fallon Connie 1049 at
K. C. For Modification
Kansas City—Plane No. 904,
the Super-Constellation damaged in
a landing at Fallon, Nev., last Dec.
7, arrived at the Overhaul base last
Friday.
It will be standardized to conform with modifications made on
the rest of TWA's Super-Connie
fleet in the past year and will go
back on the flight pattern Sept. 27.
The return of the Connie 1049
enables the airline to resume its
flights No. 38 and 39, an additional New York-San Francisco
daily roundtrip schedule.
The plane suffered extensive
damage while landing with two
engines out. Loss of braking
power caused the plane to leave the
runway, whereupon a gear collapsed and the right wing was
practically torn off. No injuries
were suffered in the accident.
The wing was trucked to Los
Angeles where it was re-worked
in the jigs of the manufacturer.
It was then returned to Fallon for
mating with the fuselage.
Chicago Sets New
Single-Day Load
Becord al 1,796
By Oscar Lohner
Chicago—Chicago sales and
operations TWAers again broke
their own system one-day boarding
record Sunday, Sept. 13, by loading
1,796 revenue passengers.
Chicago has held the system
single-day load record for several
years, upping it from time to time.
The former record was 1,772 set
here June 26.
The station holds TWA's
monthly passenger loading record
also—45,306 in August. Naturally
TWAers here are looking forward
to breaking that mark this month.
Washington — TWAers here
hiked the station one-day passenger
load record to 319 Sept. 4, replacing the former mark of 308 set
May 20 this year.
Sales and operations personnel
came right back to load 314 on
the following day, a remarkable
achievement considering that one
Connie flight did not operate. Sept.
5's record was only five passengers
short of a 100% load factor out of
Washington—as many a poor non-
rev found out.
Kansas City—TWA set a domestic passenger mile record Sunday, Sept. 13, by flying 8,585,843
revenue passenger miles. The new
mark eclipses by 2.6% the previous
domestic record set Jan. 4, 1953.
TWA's international and system
revenue passenger mile record was
established on Aug. 16, 1953; the
former at 2,496,002 and the latter
at 10,687,602 revenue passenger
miles.
SWISS FLAG THROWING exhibition attracts TWAers at opening day celebration of Kloten airport, Zurich. After official inauguration ceremonies all officials
and guests were treated to an outdoor picnic at Schwagalp. Local color was
added by folk dancing and alphorn blowing. Watching the flag thrower, left to
right, are H. G. A. Meili, district sales manager, Zurich; Pierre Desautels,
overseas director; J. H. Davidson, district operations manager, Switzerland.

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MASON WINS AWARD CHECK OF $1,000
COLLECTING A $1000 SUGGESTION PLAN CHECK is
Harold Mason, left, ground service analyst in Kansas City,
who won the highest award possible under the system for
an idea on cabin cargo seat covers. From the left are Don
Heep, manager of ground service, Tom Ashton, manager of
suggestion plan, Dick Horstmeyer, supervisor of cargo service
making the presentation, and Frank Busch, general operations manager. This is the second $1000 award this year.
VOL. 16 NO. 38
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES EMPLOYEE PUBLICATION
SEPTEMBER 17, 1953
Flight Engineer
Classes Open To
TWA Mechanics
Kansas City—All TWA mechanics who are qualified are invited to
apply for admittance to three student flight engineer classes scheduled
to open in the Kansas City ground training section this fall.
The first class begins Oct. 6. Another is slated to start Nov. 2 and a
third is tentatively set for Dec. 7.
Every TWA mechanic who can meet the qualifications will be con-
- sidered for admittance to the classes.
* *
TO WOO A TURKISH DANCER.
Sheppard Abdullah King III prepares
to depart for Cairo. Houston Sales
Manager Doug Whitmire, right, hands
King his ticket and a flight bag. King,
who married then divorced a one-time
favorite dancer of King Farouk, was
hot on the trail of another exotic
dancer, but got sidetracked in Cincinnati and missed his overseas flight.
Photo by Celia Cruz.
Paris Employees Club
To Enjoy Cuban Holiday
Paris — Special decorations,
gaily clad guests and two orchestras promise to make "One Night
in Cuba" a successful affair for
the local employees club.
Talented entertainers are also
promised by club president Christian DeTalence. The dance will
begin at 9:30 p.m., Oct. 3.
Men coming to the dance are
asked to don white jackets and
the ladies are requested to wear
a light and brilliantly colored afternoon or cocktail dress in order
to lend atmosphere to the "Cuban
holiday."
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Mamma Gnu: "Junior has been a bad
boy today. I wish you'd spank him."
Papa Gnu: "No. You'll just have to
paddle your own Gnu."
Changes Made al
Overhaul Base in
Long Bange Plan
Kansas City—Several changes
have been made in the organizational structure of the engineering
and maintenance department in
order to carry out TWA's long
range plans in connection with the
move ro the new overhaul base in
Platte county.
These changes were announced
this week by Ray Dunn, director
of the department.
In order to implement the move
into the power plant building these
appointments have been made:
F. L. Spruill will become superintendent of power plants, reporting to the manager of production.
Reporting to Spruill will be the
general foreman of engine overhaul, engine buildup, machine shop,
test cells, and plating shop.
G. F. Van Skike, general foreman of engine overhaul, has an
Applications may be made to the
nearest industrial relations office or
directly to the TWA employment
office, Municipal airport, Kansas
City, Mo.
After an application has been
made, interviews and tests will be
conducted to determine whether
the mechanic meets the basic standards and qualifications necessary for
a TWA flight engineer.
Four months of ground school
will follow before a student flight
engineer wins his wings. He will
(Continued on Page 8)
TWA Film To Highlight
N. Y. Airport TV Show
New York—Featuring Captain
Hal Blackburn and scenes from
TWA's film "Overseas Run," the
Port of New York Authority will
tell the story of International
(Idlewild) airport on TV for the
next two Sundays, Sept. 20 and
Sept. 27.
The program, a public service
feature of. WCBS-TV, has been
nounced hiTTmention of "retiring running four months to tell the
next year. In order to make use of stoiL°f the P°rt of New York-
his many years of engine overhaul TWA ls cooperating with the
experience in the planning of the Port authority and CBS to make
new base to be built for TWA at available its people and equipment
the Platte county airport, Van t0 take the Publlc belJind the
Skike will work on special assign- s